NewsMine — war-on-terror — iraq — 2003-invasion — warplan — Viewing Item

Possible use moab { April 10 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/geog/nea/iraq&f=03041005.trq&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/geog/nea/iraq&f=03041005.trq&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml U.S. Department of State Washington File 10 April 2003 Transcript: U.S. Central Command Daily Briefing, April 10, 2003 (Military operations in Iraq) (8900) Q: (Name inaudible), Irish Times. I had two questions. Number one, where are Saddam, Uday, Qusay, Tariq Aziz, all those other folks? Secondly -- GEN. RENUART: Do y'all, like, draw straws to see where that question's going to go in the room each day? (Laughter.) Q: Secondly -- you're not going to answer this one either -- (laughter, some applause) -- the MOAB. I saw a report on TV this morning that it had been brought in for possible use. Are you going to use it? Is it really necessary at this stage? Thanks. GEN. RENUART: Well, I'll go to the second question first. The so-called MOAB, or the BLU-82, which is a 15,000-pound weapon, are surely weapons that are available to us to use really anywhere it's appropriate. We wouldn't want to take away from any commander the opportunity to use appropriate weapons for their part of the battlefield. As to an intention to use it, a target to use it for, I think it would be very unfair of me to presuppose any of those possibilities, and we leave that to the commanders out in the battlefield to make a recommendation on both targets and applicable weapons.

Asking israel for advice Aziz war going well Blair delayed 911 iraq attack { April 3 2003 } Bush blair admit war months Dangerous advise gop split { March 31 2003 } General denies asking more troops { March 30 2003 } Iraqi militia backed by special forces { April 8 2003 } Lessons of lebanon { March 30 2003 } Longer harder than predicted { March 23 2003 } Moab bomb to iraq { April 10 2003 } No coalition control of cities Peter arnett warplan failed { March 30 2003 } Planning more invasions { March 26 2003 } Possible use moab { April 10 2003 } Rolling start Saving civilians lengthens war { March 27 2003 } Tomahawk cruise missiles supply { April 1 2003 } Upbeat forecast questioned { March 29 2003 } War conduct is defended { March 26 2003 } War far from over { March 26 2003 } War gets ugly { March 24 2003 } War plan failed arnett { March 31 2003 } Will become quagmire { March 24 2003 } Files Listed: 23

Correction/submissions

CIA FOIA Archive

National Security Archives

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information, go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purpose of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.